The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-10-10

Those who were 20 years old and under
80 wore rcd rosettes on their left
breasts; those over so and under 90
wore blue rosettes, and all over 80 had
white rosettes. Any person over 100
years was entitled to wear q golden
star which the commtte having charge
of the arrangements for the festival
day would furnish There was no CEN
ternarian this year, though. Last year
Mary Bishop and Father Wilding wore
the gold badge. The former was fee
BILE in her lower limbs, but retained full
possession of her faculties. Savage pho
tographed her when she was 100 years
and Is days old. Father Wilding lived
to be 1O2. He walked down town every
week to be shaved, and could get
around on his feet in quite lively
manner. Both died during the last
twelve months.
AtOgden several local old people join
ed the throng. There were two or three
couples over 80 from, the junction city.
Only thirty or forty of the octogena-
rians were so feeble that they had to be
assisted, and only two were blind.
Fifty young folks had been provided
with tickets, and were supposed to
| look after the feeble. A few weak and
faded old gents had to be carried into
and out of the cars, but the rule was
that the older the subject the greater
was his or her ambition to appear as
youthful as the youngest in the party.
They promenaded the park, listened to
the music, danced, ate cake and drank
wine, and received new vigor and fresh
nees from the days sport Several
hundred dollars worth of presents were
distributed, and James Burgon, of
Union Fort at the south end of Salt
Lake City, took the prize for being the
oldest person present He is &c. and
expects to live ten or twenty years
longer. The presents always consists
of silk handkerchiefs, walking sticks.
rocking chairs, blankets, and articles
of this description, together with mon
ey. M. Burgon received the finest pair
of blankets ever woven in Utah. Every
body over so gets walking stick, and
the old ladies have the days of their
bellehood recalled by gifts of handsome
dress patterns.
There are probably one hundred
more individuals in this vicinity who
are over So years of age. Miss Tafts.
who is SO. is not mentioned, neither Is
Miss Sarah Whitney, who is So, and
still speaks three languages, plays the
piano, and retains others of her girlish
accomplishments. There are many too
feeble to get out who did not partici-
pate in the Ogden excursion. Then,
too, there are large numbers in exceed
ingly good circumstances who do not
mingle with the common herd OF octor
genarians. Some of the ablest Nor
mons are in their eighties. There is
Judge Elias Smith, born in 1904, who
would still be on the bench If the Ed
munds polygamy act had not disfran-
chised him and made him ineligible to
hold office. He was appointed chief
Justice of Salt Lake county by Brigham
Young when the state of Deseret was
formed, and he held that until
1882. A chief justiceship IN this
| connection amounts to about the
same thing as county judgeship. In
the Deseret scheme of government
every county had chief justice, who
sat with two associate justices, Judge
Smith is now 83. but he hobbies around,
and can draw up brief or make an
argument as well to-day as the brightest
young member of the bar. Erastus
Snow, one of the twelve apostles, is in
his SEVENTEEN year, and has been I'M
derground for some time. He had
narrow escape from the deputy mar
shals in February last, of which shall
write later. Henry Grow, in his
seventy-first year, is serving a six
months term in the penitentiary for
unlawful cohabitation. He has several
wives, Joseph c. Kingsbury. of the
tithng office, is in his eighty-first year.
And so on enumerating and naming
these old dodgers, but 1t would make a
list almost as large as a city directory.
SO / will STOP and merely say that
polygamy. paying and revelation
seem to be conducive to longevity, at
least in Salt Lake valley. must men,
| ton. however. that one of the greatest